[OldNorth] Emlen-Wolcott Growth Projections

[John Lofland]

Old Northers,

Item 08 in this week's Council packet is by planners Emlen and 
Wolcott and titled "Growth Phasing & Fair Share Allocations."

It contains tables of projected housing construction approvals by 
year over the next decade or so.

Of immediate relevance to us, the major housing predicted within the 
1917 City I noticed was 20 units on B Street.

We know, however, that quite a lot of housing construction is going 
on and planned in the Original City.

The question is: Is it in our interest to lobby to include 
projections for us or not?

And, of course, it is exceedingly odd, to me, for planners to project 
20 new units on B when there is a considerable struggle on that point 
going on and such a number may or may not actually be anywhere near 
the outcome.

But, then, the projections assume that Covell Village will be 
approved and built!  The year by year numbers are given in 
considerable detail.

Such a planning exercise as this is a version of the self-fulfilling 
prophecy: A thing happens importantly as a consequence of a belief 
that it will happen rather than because factors in the nature of the 
situation making it happen.

John Lofland